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The Chinese Computer

Author : Thomas S. Mullaney
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262047519
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book The Chinese Computer written by Thomas S. Mullaney and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2024-05-28 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating, untold story of how the Chinese language overcame unparalleled challenges and revolutionized the world of computing. A standard QWERTY keyboard has a few dozen keys. How can Chinese—a language with tens of thousands of characters and no alphabet—be input on such a device? In The Chinese Computer, Thomas S. Mullaney sets out to resolve this paradox, and in doing so, discovers that the key to this seemingly impossible riddle has given rise to a new epoch in the history of writing—a form of writing he calls “hypography.” Based on fifteen years of research, this pathbreaking history of the Chinese language charts the beginnings of electronic Chinese technology in the wake of World War II up through to its many iterations in the present day. Mullaney takes the reader back through the history and evolution of Chinese language computing technology, showing the development of electronic Chinese input methods—software programs that enable Chinese characters to be produced using alphanumeric symbols—and the profound impact they have had on the way Chinese is written. Along the way, Mullaney introduces a cast of brilliant and eccentric personalities drawn from the ranks of IBM, MIT, the CIA, the Pentagon, the Taiwanese military, and the highest rungs of mainland Chinese establishment, to name a few, and the unexpected roles they played in developing Chinese language computing. Finally, he shows how China and the non-Western world—because of the hypographic technologies they had to invent in order to join the personal computing revolution—“saved” the Western computer from its deep biases, enabling it to achieve a meaningful presence in markets outside of the Americas and Europe. An eminently engaging and artfully told history, The Chinese Computer is a must-read for anyone interested in how culture informs computing and how computing, in turn, shapes culture.

The Chinese Typewriter

Author : Thomas S. Mullaney
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262536102
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book The Chinese Typewriter written by Thomas S. Mullaney and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Chinese characters triumphed over the QWERTY keyboard and laid the foundation for China's information technology successes today. Chinese writing is character based, the one major world script that is neither alphabetic nor syllabic. Through the years, the Chinese written language encountered presumed alphabetic universalism in the form of Morse Code, Braille, stenography, Linotype, punch cards, word processing, and other systems developed with the Latin alphabet in mind. This book is about those encounters—in particular thousands of Chinese characters versus the typewriter and its QWERTY keyboard. Thomas Mullaney describes a fascinating series of experiments, prototypes, failures, and successes in the century-long quest for a workable Chinese typewriter. The earliest Chinese typewriters, Mullaney tells us, were figments of popular imagination, sensational accounts of twelve-foot keyboards with 5,000 keys. One of the first Chinese typewriters actually constructed was invented by a Christian missionary, who organized characters by common usage (but promoted the less-common characters for “Jesus" to the common usage level). Later came typewriters manufactured for use in Chinese offices, and typewriting schools that turned out trained “typewriter girls” and “typewriter boys.” Still later was the “Double Pigeon” typewriter produced by the Shanghai Calculator and Typewriter Factory, the typewriter of choice under Mao. Clerks and secretaries in this era experimented with alternative ways of organizing characters on their tray beds, inventing an input method that was the first instance of “predictive text.” Today, after more than a century of resistance against the alphabetic, not only have Chinese characters prevailed, they form the linguistic substrate of the vibrant world of Chinese information technology. The Chinese Typewriter, not just an “object history” but grappling with broad questions of technological change and global communication, shows how this happened. A Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Columbia University

The Chinese Computer

Author : Thomas Shawn Mullaney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780262372428
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (724 download)

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Download or read book The Chinese Computer written by Thomas Shawn Mullaney and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Exploration of the largely unknown history of Chinese-language computing systems, accessible to an audience unfamiliar with the Chinese language or the technical workings of personal computers"--

Advances in Chinese Computer Science

Author : Kongshi Xu
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9789810201524
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Advances in Chinese Computer Science written by Kongshi Xu and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1991-03-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/1046

The Emerging Market of China's Computer Industry

Author : Jeff X. Zhang
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book The Emerging Market of China's Computer Industry written by Jeff X. Zhang and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1995-12-11 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides Western business people with the information they need to analyze market trends in the Chinese computer industry, and to understand the unwritten rules that are crucial to playing the Chinese business "game" successfully.

Chinese Industrial Espionage

Author : William C. Hannas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135952612
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Chinese Industrial Espionage written by William C. Hannas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-14 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new book is the first full account, inside or outside government, of China’s efforts to acquire foreign technology. Based on primary sources and meticulously researched, the book lays bare China’s efforts to prosper technologically through others' achievements. For decades, China has operated an elaborate system to spot foreign technologies, acquire them by all conceivable means, and convert them into weapons and competitive goods—without compensating the owners. The director of the US National Security Agency recently called it "the greatest transfer of wealth in history." Written by two of America's leading government analysts and an expert on Chinese cyber networks, this book describes these transfer processes comprehensively and in detail, providing the breadth and depth missing in other works. Drawing upon previously unexploited Chinese language sources, the authors begin by placing the new research within historical context, before examining the People’s Republic of China’s policy support for economic espionage, clandestine technology transfers, theft through cyberspace and its impact on the future of the US. This book will be of much interest to students of Chinese politics, Asian security studies, US defence, US foreign policy and IR in general.

The East Asian Computer Chip War

Author : Ming-chin Monique Chu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317961552
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book The East Asian Computer Chip War written by Ming-chin Monique Chu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The semiconductor industry is a vital industry for military establishments worldwide, and the control of, or loss of control of, this key industry has enormous strategic implications. This book focuses on the globalization of the strategic semiconductor industry and the security ramifications of this process. It examines in particular the migration of the Taiwanese chip industry to China as part of the globalization of production processes, and the extent to which such a globalization process poses security challenges to the United States, China and Taiwan. Transcending disciplinary boundaries between international political economy, security studies, and the history of science and technology, this multidisciplinary work provides an in-depth understanding of the globalization-security nexus, and disentangles the key policy issues connected to a potential explosive flashpoint in world politics today.

The Question Concerning Technology in China

Author : Yuk Hui
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0995455007
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (954 download)

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Download or read book The Question Concerning Technology in China written by Yuk Hui and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2016-09-02 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A systematic historical survey of Chinese thought is followed by an investigation of the historical-metaphysical questions of modern technology, asking how Chinese thought might contribute to a renewed questioning of globalized technics. Heidegger's critique of modern technology and its relation to metaphysics has been widely accepted in the East. Yet the conception that there is only one—originally Greek—type of technics has been an obstacle to any original critical thinking of technology in modern Chinese thought. Yuk Hui argues for the urgency of imagining a specifically Chinese philosophy of technology capable of responding to Heidegger's challenge, while problematizing the affirmation of technics and technologies as anthropologically universal. This investigation of the historical-metaphysical question of technology, drawing on Lyotard, Simondon, and Stiegler, and introducing a history of modern Eastern philosophical thinking largely unknown to Western readers, including philosophers such as Feng Youlan, Mou Zongsan, and Keiji Nishitani, sheds new light on the obscurity of the question of technology in China. Why was technics never thematized in Chinese thought? Why has time never been a real question for Chinese philosophy? How was the traditional concept of Qi transformed in its relation to Dao as China welcomed technological modernity and westernization? In The Question Concerning Technology in China, a systematic historical survey of the major concepts of traditional Chinese thinking is followed by a startlingly original investigation of these questions, in order to ask how Chinese thought might today contribute to a renewed, cosmotechnical questioning of globalized technics.

Kingdom of Characters (Pulitzer Prize Finalist)

Author : Jing Tsu
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735214735
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Kingdom of Characters (Pulitzer Prize Finalist) written by Jing Tsu and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-01-17 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST A New York Times Notable Book of 2022 What does it take to reinvent a language? After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world’s most powerful nations. Just a century ago, it was a crumbling empire with literacy reserved for the elite few, as the world underwent a massive technological transformation that threatened to leave them behind. In Kingdom of Characters, Jing Tsu argues that China’s most daunting challenge was a linguistic one: the century-long fight to make the formidable Chinese language accessible to the modern world of global trade and digital technology. Kingdom of Characters follows the bold innovators who reinvented the Chinese language, among them an exiled reformer who risked a death sentence to advocate for Mandarin as a national language, a Chinese-Muslim poet who laid the groundwork for Chairman Mao's phonetic writing system, and a computer engineer who devised input codes for Chinese characters on the lid of a teacup from the floor of a jail cell. Without their advances, China might never have become the dominating force we know today. With larger-than-life characters and an unexpected perspective on the major events of China’s tumultuous twentieth century, Tsu reveals how language is both a technology to be perfected and a subtle, yet potent, power to be exercised and expanded.

AI Superpowers

Author : Kai-Fu Lee
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
ISBN 13 : 132854639X
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (285 download)

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Download or read book AI Superpowers written by Kai-Fu Lee and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction -- China's Sputnik moment -- Copycats in the Coliseum -- China's alternate Internet universe -- A tale of two countries -- The four waves of AI -- Utopia, dystopia, and the real AI crisis -- The wisdom of cancer -- A blueprint for human co-existence with AI -- Our global AI story

Computer Systems

Author : J. Stanley Warford
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
ISBN 13 : 0763771449
Total Pages : 731 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (637 download)

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Download or read book Computer Systems written by J. Stanley Warford and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2009-06-23 with total page 731 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Computer Architecture/Software Engineering

Can Science and Technology Save China?

Author : Susan Greenhalgh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781501747038
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Can Science and Technology Save China? written by Susan Greenhalgh and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This study of the intimate connections between science and society in China shows that science and technology, far from saving China, as the country's leaders promise, are producing unanticipated, often deeply disturbing effects"--

Advances In Chinese Computer Science, Vol 1

Author : Kongshi Xu
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814507873
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (145 download)

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Download or read book Advances In Chinese Computer Science, Vol 1 written by Kongshi Xu and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1988-10-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been significant progress in certain areas of software engineering in China during the past five years. This volume is the first in a series of reports on outstanding results by Chinese computer scientists. It consists of twelve papers contributed by leading computer scientists in China. This book is a must for all professionals engaged in software engineering research.

Advances in Chinese Computer Science

Author : Kongshi Xu
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9789971501990
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Advances in Chinese Computer Science written by Kongshi Xu and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1988 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been significant progress in certain areas of software engineering in China during the past five years. This volume is the first in a series of reports on outstanding results by Chinese computer scientists. It consists of twelve papers contributed by leading computer scientists in China. This book is a must for all professionals engaged in software engineering research.

The Lenovo Affair

Author : Ling Zhijun
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470821930
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Lenovo Affair written by Ling Zhijun and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2006-06-23 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lenovo is a global leader in the PC market, employing more than 19,000 people worldwide. Its landmark takeover of IBM’s PC division in May 2005 was a major step for the company and a huge boost for Chinese industry. The deal proved to the world that Chinese companies are not only competitive in the domestic markets but can also compete at a global level. Lenovo was founded in 1984 by 11 engineers working out of a small bungalow in Beijing. Their crisis was to create a company that would offer PCs to the Chinese people at an affordable price. Using the brand name, Legend, it promoted PC usage throughout China and developed the revolutionary Legend Chinese character card that translated English software into Chinese characters. In 1994, Legend was successfully listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and in 2003 rebranded itself as Lenovo. The company went from strength to strength and dominated the Chinese market with more than 25% of market share in 2004. The IBM acquisition has marked another key milestone in the history of the company. Lenovo now has over $13 billion in annual reserves and possesses necessary infrastructure to develop its markets around the world. The company is a worldwide sponsor of the International Olympic Committee and will offer funding and support to the 2006 Winter Games in Torino and the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing. Author Ling Zhijun is well known in China for his reporting on China’s economic reform, and for his book “Jiao Feng”. This book sold over two million copies in China. The author is a seasoned reporter for the People’s Daily; based in Shanghai. Martha Avery, the translator and editor of this book in English, has translated a number of works of Chinese literature into English that have been published by such presses as Viking Penguin, WW Norton, HarperCollins, Farrar Straus Giruoux and David Godine. Her most recent authored book is Tea Road: China and Russia Meet Across the Steppe. This is an economic history of the region and was published by the Intercontinental Press (China) in 2004. Ms Avery is based in Boulder, Colorado, but travels frequently to China as business consultant for a large software distributor called Software Spectrum, Inc.

Masked Intentions

Author : Allan Joseph
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1426937024
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book Masked Intentions written by Allan Joseph and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10-25 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 70’s China was an awakening giant; decades of depressing self sufficiency theories left the country technologically, industrially and agriculturally backward. By 1975, Chou En Lai and Deng Tsao Ping recognized a renaissance of technology and open economy was required Achieving those goals required engagement with the U.S. to replicate, leapfrog and provide a starter engine. The engine which had accelerated the West’s economies was the ubiquitous computer. How was China to get one? The United States strictly controlled the export of computers to the Communist world, particularly since the Korean War. The world leader in computers, IBM, was sought and responded. This book presents IBM and China’s one year 1977 struggle in Beijing to write a contract that unleashed IBM’s, China’s and the U.S.’s restraints on computer exports and delivered China’s first large-scale computer in 1978. The book presents the basis for China’s ensuing economic boom. It tells a story of humor, strife and of lasting personal bonds. It reveals the mishaps of cross-cultural negotiation. And... it reveals how the Chinese plan for modern computer education was hidden in computer purchase. Three Chinese engineers – Messer’s Wu, Mu and Shu - and two American IBM’ers enabled that deception and bridged the cultural gap. IBM now has thousands of employees in its Greater China organization and billions in revenue. China has a thriving Information Management industry and connection to the world through the internet all starting with this seed.

Closing The Gap

Author : Otto W Witzell
Publisher : Westview Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Closing The Gap written by Otto W Witzell and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1989-04-12 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: